Daily Readings for Thursday 2nd January 2025

Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part       of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.


Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.  


Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface - The first sabbath. The manner of the creation. The planting of the garden of Eden. The river, and its four heads. Man is placed in Eden, and the tree of knowledge only forbidden. The naming of the creatures. The making of woman, and institution of marriage.
Genesis 2
Preface - Wise men from the east come to Jerusalem to enquire after Christ. Herod is alarmed. The wise men are directed by a star to Christ, and worship him, offering gifts. Joseph, warned by an angel, fleeth with the young child and his mother into Egypt. Herod's massacre of the children in Bethlehem and round about. Upon the death of Herod Christ is brought out of Egypt, and dwelleth at Nazareth.
​Matthew 2


Daily Light - Morning
Sing unto the LORD a new son.

Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. - He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. - The joy of the LORD is your strength. - Paul...thanked God, and took courage.

Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wontonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.


Daily Light - Evening
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense;
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon... And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning... And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

(Jesus) is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. - The smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Pray without ceasing.
Ps. 141.2; Ex. 30.1,6-7,8
He. 7.25; Rev. 8.4
1 Pe. 2.5
1 Th. 5.17


A Puritans Catechism
Q 53 - What is required in the fifth commandment?
A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day
Chapter 22
PARAGRAPH 1
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The light of nature shows that there is a God, who has lordship and sovereignty over all; is just, good and does good to all; and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heart and all the soul, and with all the might. (1) But the acceptable way of worshippin gthe true God, is instituted by himself, (2) and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imagination and devices of men, nor the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representations, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scriptures. (3)
(1) Jer. 10:7; Mark 12:33 (2) Deut. 12:32. (3) Exod. 20:4-6

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Self dedication
One shall say that I am the Lord's....
Isaiah 44 v 5

Oh! there is no greater joy than for a believing soul to give him self all to God. This has always been the way in times of refreshing. It was so at Pentecost. First they gave their own selves unto the Lord. It was so with Boston, and Doddridge, and Edwards, and all the holy men of old.
"I have this day been before God," says Edwards," and have given myself all that I am and have - to God; so that I am in no respect my own. I can challenge no right in myself - in this understanding, this will, these affections. Neither have I right to this body, or any of its members - no right to this tongue, these hands, these feet, these eyes, these ears. I have given myself clean away."
Oh! would that you knew the joy of giving yourself away. You cannot keep yourself. Oh! this day try and give all to Him Lie in His hand.